[Mono-list] AOT Compiling a .NET assembly

[Christopher David Howie]

On 06/02/2010 10:10 PM, MrUnleaded wrote:
> I know that mono has somethings to do AOT compilation and I was curious
> as to how/where in the PE/CLI structure any native code is put and if
> there is some documentation on that anywhere.

AOT code is put into a file whose name is the same as the assembly, with
.so added to the end.  This file is understood only by Mono; the .NET
runtime will not use it.

> I would imagine it would have some relation to the ManagedNativeHeader
> that is referenced in ECMA335 on page 179 but I haven't been able to
> find anything on it other then that DataDirectory/RVA is always 0.

This is for native code compiled into the assembly, which I think is
used primarily by Managed C++.

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